Nothing says spring like the start of the whitebait season this past weekend. But aficionados might pause, fork in midair, if they heard freshwater ecologist Mike Joy’s comments connecting whitebait and another native species that has been in the news in a culinary connection: kereru. Both are threatened, so, from a biodiversity point of view, eating […]...
Since the Immigration Act of 1987, migration from the Indian subcontinent has swelled Auckland’s suburban population, bringing with it a cultural cargo of music and dance that has coloured urban life and changed what it means to be a New Zealander....
The evidence: piles of discarded freshwater mussel shells, or kākahi. The crime: eating threatened species. Who was responsible? Waikato University rodent biologist Bridgette Farnworth wondered if Norway rats were the perpetrators. Farnworth embarked on a scientific whodunit, deploying cameras along Orongo Stream in western Waikato. The waterway is home to two types of freshwater mussel, […]...
